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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>Best practices for Disk Defragmenter</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>Defragmenting virtual disks can impede the overall performance of PHD Virtual Backup, resulting in lower deduplication rates, which in turn produces larger backup files written to storage and longer backup durations. To ensure consistent backup performance, PHD recommends running disk defragmentation programs only when necessary.</p> <p>Running defragmentation on any disks used as backup storage is not recommended.</p> </article> </main>